WND.com | Iraq to get first F-16 jets in early 2014: official Chicago Tribune BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq will receive the first 24 of 36 F-16 fighter jets it has ordered from the United States at the beginning of 2014, a senior official told Reuters on Sunday. Under deposed dictator Saddam Hussein, Iraq's air force was one of the ... Maliki's Iraq now splitting? Iraq leaders call for solution to political crisis |
KPIC | Despite skills, veterans of Afghanistan, Iraq not getting hired Detroit Free Press Air Force veteran Matthew Pizzo, 29, left the military after serving in Iraq to go to college and law school. He has not been able to find a job in his hometown of New York. "It's disheartening," he says. / CAROLYN COLE/McClatchy-Tribune By David ... Veterans navigate tough new terrain - the job market Vets navigate tough new terrain _ the job market |
RT | From Shylock to Romeo, Iraq Blooms Forbes asks the wife of Monahhil Daood, director of Romeo and Juliet in Baghdad, which has just left the National Theater in Iraq for the 2012 World Shakespeare Festival in London. “We've had enough of gun-toting, dim young men,” she concludes, talking to The ... Romeo and Juliet fighting for love in Iraq Montague and Capulet as Shiite and Sunni 'Romeo and Juliet in Baghdad' recounts the Iraqi tragedy |
Aljazeera.com | Three killed, nine injured in Iraq New York Daily News Baghdad, April 30 — At least three people were killed and nine injured Sunday in separate attacks in Iraq, police said. In eastern province of Diyala, two policemen were killed and another was injured after gunmen attacked a police checkpost in Baquba ... Iraq: Explosions Rip Through Cafe Northeast Of Baghdad, Killing 9 And Wounding 21 At Least 8 Killed In Bomb Attack On Iraq Coffee Shop Deadly attacks strike Iraq's Diyala province |
Hotelier Middle East | Starwood Hotels Plans Return to Iraq 20 Years After Gulf War Bloomberg Starwood signed agreements to operate two hotels in Erbil, Iraq, Guido De Wilde, senior vice president for the Middle East, said in an interview in Dubai today. The hotelier will operate a 250-room Four Points by Sheraton and a Sheraton property with ... Starwood signs Iraq Sheraton and Four Points Starwood Hotels and Resorts expands presence into Iraq |
gulfnews.com | Ex-Marine aims camera at self to heal from the war Albany Times Union JOHN ROGERS, AP This November 2004 photo provided by Garrett Anderson shows a tank during the battle for Fallujah, Iraq. Anderson, an ex-Marine filmmaker whose unit carried pocket digital cameras into some of the worst fighting in Iraq is using that ... 'And Then They Came Home:' Marine turned filmmaker documents own experiences ... Documentary may help Iraq War veteran heal Ex-Marine screens images of war |
Globe and Mail | CIA Told Obama Case for WMD in Iraq Was Stronger Than Bin Laden Being in ... NewsBusters (blog) By Noel Sheppard | April 29, 2012 | 18:41 Peter Bergen, CNN's national security analyst, said Sunday that President Obama was informed by CIA Deputy Director Michael Morell in December 2010 "that the circumstantial case that Iraq had weapons of mass ... Weaker al-Qaida still plots payback for US raid |
Iraq wants Nigeria to reopen embassy in Baghdad Vanguard Abuja – Iraq has called on Nigeria to re-open its embassy in Baghdad to further strengthen relations between both countries. Nigeria and Iraq closed their respective embassies in 2003, but Iraq re-opened its own in 2007 after the war in that country. |
Independent Online | Iraq's foreign investment grows Independent Online By Reuters When Dubai-based property developer Range Hospitality decided to build a $175 million (R1.4 billion) hotel and residential complex in Iraq's holy city of Karbala, it ran into a common difficulty for investors in the country: raising finance. |
AFP | Hard-line Iraqi cleric urges political unity Fox News IRBIL, Iraq – Two political leaders who put Iraq's prime minister in power met Thursday to discuss if they should withdraw their support, now that a bitter sectarian political deadlock has even led to calls for secession. Hard-line anti-US Shiite ... Iraq's Sadr in Kurdistan to mediate crisis AP Interview: Iraqi Kurd Leader Hints at Secession Power Struggles in Baghdad and Beyond Mean Opportunities for Iraq's Kurds |